{"id":90185,"date":"2025-05-10T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90185\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:46:09","slug":"meet-hydropol-the-plastic-that-dissolves-in-water-and-could-solve-londons-fatberg-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90185\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Hydropol, the plastic that dissolves in water \u2013 and could solve London&#8217;s fatberg crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All plastics are polymers, repeating chains of petroleum-derived molecules. Hydropol can be shaped and functions like a plastic, until it is immersed in water. \u201cMost plastic polymers are hydrophobic, so they form microplastics that hang around forever,\u201d explains Lapping. \u201cHydropol is hydrophilic, so they can&#8217;t form the harmful microplastics that hydrophobics can. It will dissolve, go into solution, and then fully biodegrade.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All plastics are polymers, repeating chains of petroleum-derived molecules. Hydropol can be shaped and functions like a plastic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,42755,1097,12447,10688,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-fatberg","10":"tag-microplastics","11":"tag-plastic","12":"tag-recycling","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114483847727582307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}